In India, it’s often difficult to talk openly about sex and sexual health. One AI chatbot aims to fill that void by breaking down stigma and educating women about their bodies. To do so, it had to learn nuanced language.
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00:00When Kalyani Kadam first got her period, she didn't know anything about it.
00:08She had a lot of misconceptions.
00:13My grandmother used to say, if a snake tastes the period blood from discarded sanitary pads,
00:19then you'll never get your period again and you'll never be able to have children.
00:23She found out only recently that that wasn't true, after asking an AI chatbot, because
00:28that time had come for her daughter too.
00:34When my daughter first got her period, I repeated what I had been told, that you'll have problems
00:38if any animal tastes your period blood.
00:41But then I asked the Menabola app about it, and it cleared up the misconception.
00:45I explained to my daughter that it was actually a superstition.
00:52As a super user of the ChatTPT-powered chatbot, she can also ask questions on behalf of other
00:58women.
00:59Now, whenever I have a question about periods, pregnancy or even mental health, we put it
01:07to the chatbot and get an answer.
01:12Whatever the women ask me, I put it in the chatbot and it replies.
01:17In India, AI chatbots like Menabolo, Snare.ai or JustAsk offer users medically accurate
01:23answers in a confidential and non-judgmental manner.
01:27The information in the Menabolo app comes from doctors who tailor it to regional needs.
01:32We have created a medical database and we have restricted it to the Indian context.
01:39For example, a user has asked that, oh, I've had relations and I don't want to conceive
01:45at the moment.
01:47What should I do?
01:48The obvious answer is that you can have ECP, emergency contraceptive pill.
01:53So the answer that could come from here is that you could take an ECP anywhere between
01:59five days of having relations.
02:01But in the Indian context, that would not work.
02:03The ECPs that are available here usually are working only for 72 hours.